On 14 Jul 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > > apsfilter is fairly old and unmaintained. Is there any reason not to > > use CUPS with the cupsys-driver-gutenprint, hplip or Foomatic drivers? > > > > If you have to use apsfilter (though there are alteratives available), > > I would suggest first filing a bug report, or contacting the > > maintainer. > > > > Perhaps its only my impression, but isn't CUPS a rather large > sledgehammer? > > Is everything cups now? As in, is all the development and maintenance > happening to cups rather than to LPRng, apsfilter, et-al? > > Right now, for a spooler, I'm using good-ol lpd. At least it should be > well maintained since its still the standard print spooler on OpenBSD. > Since they're so licence-concious (BSD slant vs the GPL slant of > Debian), I asked what BSD filter programs there are: none. > > So if all the focus, maintenance, support, etc is on CUPS, I guess I'll > go with cups. > > Thanks, > > Doug. >
I agree about lpd. I've found magicfilter to work better for me than either CUPS or apsfilter: easier to set up and more reliable. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
